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TIL The Frilled Sharks live in the deep-sea (1,500 m) below the surface. They are considered living fossils.

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LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.
R7mWa TIL That the phrase "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" originates because in medieval ages, people shared scarce bathwater and by the time the baby was bathed, the water was so murky that the baby was in danger of being thrown out unseen
oP08 TIL that the most powerful pirate in history was Ching Shih, a Chinese woman that commanded the Red Flag Fleet, which the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty were unable to defeat. She also instituted a Pirate Code.
VMQK4 TIL in Kentucky that five million gallons of the "angel's share" from bourbon evaporates every year, which is also covering the state in a black fungus called "Baudoinia" that feeds off the ethanol vapor released by liquor as it ages.
o8x7 TIL that ancient Indians had concepts that revolved around time dilation and the idea that time flows at different rates in different “universes”